Pulse of the People: Dec. 29, 2013

We all make them, partly in jest and don’t really bother trying to live up to any of our promises. Losing weight, saving money, cleaning out the garage, etc., are items usually on the short list. Since this idea of a resolution is such a joke I think I’ll change my approach and tailor it to something I can actually live up to for the upcoming year.

Here we go:

1. If I see or hear about anyone being bullied on the job, at school or anywhere else I’ll intervene and stop it on the spot;

2. I will totally ignore and not tolerate hate-mongering of any kind, especially against minorities;

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3. I will boycott anything that supports these hateful and hurtful things; and

4. I’ll advocate for homeless people and animals and service veterans.

It may not be much of a sacrifice for me as I do these things anyway, but hell it’s a good start, right?

Tom King

Shaftsbury, VT.

You are what makes our nation great

Being a team player sounds good on paper, and I am just as sure that there are times when one’s very survival depends upon it! But to lump your entire existence into the same narrow and restrictive parameters as does every other creature that draws breath, is as fool-hearty as attempting to fly on the wings of chance alone!

Attempting to fit in perfectly with the majority on all things, and at all times, is just plain stupid, be that attempt predicated upon politics, religion, or even many other social norms!

We are, in reality, all separate and different creatures with various talents, likes, dislikes, and even religious points of view – hence comes the word tolerance!

And to those of you, who do not always feel, think or act as ordered, to those who will not be ridiculed just because they refuse to forever adhere to the will of the in-crowd, and to those of you who genuinely think for yourselves, I say good for you! You are, after all, what made this nation of ours great to begin with, and it is you who will continue to help it advance, not the mob mentality, or even the politically correct elitists who were the main reason for the mass exodus from “That Tired Old World” to begin with - and this, even if portions of that same controlled way of thinking has managed to follow closely upon your heels at times in its ongoing efforts to again subjugate the minds and souls of free and independent thinkers!

H. Rick Tavares

Campo, California

This should be everyone’s goal

Obituary; Nelson Mandela finished his life better than he started. This should be everyone’s goal.

“Now for the rest of the story.” Nelson Mandela started out life in apartheid South Africa. An unjust system to put it mildly. Nelson became a communist, it is all he had to turn to. As Mike Savage stated on his radio show - 12/05/2013, “I might have done likewise in the same situation.” Communism is the alter ego of injustice, another unjust system of greater evil - assuming evil comes in degrees.

Brief history; The systems of race exploitation in South Africa was unnecessary. Many souls in Europe were hungering for a better life. They were a ready made labor pool for the men of greed in South Africa. The greedy men turned to ‘cheap’ black labor. Had whites from Europe been imported, there would only be the issue of colonialism, not colonialism colored by racism. The same seeds of discontent planted in South Africa by greedy white men are not being enacted in North America, the former USA. History does repeat itself, knowing the faults of the past, does not make US smarter, just provides talking points. Greed rules all. Greed knows no race nor ideology, it comes in many forms, as does evil.

Nelson went into prison a Communist, he came out a human being. A man with a heart locked in the body of a Communist. Not a perfect situation but better than it could have been. Yes, I know he was not perfect but nor is the current God President of the US. He too is a Communist but his heart is AWOL, like his transcripts.

One headline says Mandela’s funeral would be in the range of Winston Churchill’s funeral, ironic since Churchill was the consummate colonialist. Two sides of the same coin. Both men are dead and a funeral size does not make them come back to life.

Obituary; Nelson Mandela finished his life better than he started. This should be everyone’s goal.